Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10
THE WORST CASE ON RECORD.
Fiendish Torture of Child by Its Nearest
Relatives.
Pail Mall Gaze tie

Relatives
Pail Mall Gaze tie.
A revolt ne case of child martyrdom
has been just tried ct the Nancy assizes.
a grandfather, an uncle and an aunt of
the juvenile martyr were in the dock on
the charge Of hGving perpetrated a slow
and torturing murder Their family
name was Norroy. The elder Norroy
went last July to PARIS, where he had 8
son, the wife of whom had lately died
leaving little girl, Mary Josephine,
aged four. She was fetched back to
Briey, where the grandfather, uncle and
aunt lived, and witnesses who deposed to
her martyrdom said she was fresh faced,
laughing and attractive child when she
arrived at Briey. The grandfather said
she was an encumbranCe, and she
must be got rid of, as they could
not afford to bring her up. His
son Marcel and his daughter Josephine
being Of the same mind, they set about
killing the child by slow degrees. A
neigh5Or, one COchard, saw Marcel beat
the child because she was not able to
thrash out the sheaves of wheat with a
heavy bat. When she cried, and said she
could not hold it, he tied her hands TO it
and stood over her with & rod, with which
ne struck her when her strength failed
Last October woman named TeltZ, who
lived next door, was awoke at 3 o'clock
in the morning by the plaintiye cries Of
Marie. Going to q window and looking
in she sgw old NCrr0y with a bunch of
rods fiOgging the child, who, when he let
her go, ran TO the aunt, Josephine, to i'm
plore protection, out instead OF obtaining
it she received q violent kick in the abdo-
men, and was then picked up by the aunt,
who held her between her knees for the
grandfather to fog afresh. Then ne took
Marie Dy the hair, and lifting her up,
dashed her on the ground and pom
melsd her, crying as ne did SO, "Take
that, take that! and let your friends
now 90 if they like and make
another report to the Mayor" Another
day he took her 10 the pigstye and rolled
her in the filth there, and then, after
throwing bucket OF cold water on her,
logged her with nettles. Another day
the uncle threw her into o rut, at the
bottom of hill down which q cart driven
by the grandfather was coming, but s
passerby saved her from being crushed
to death. Last winter she used to be
taken from before the fire and placed I'M
der the pump, She was half starved, she
was beaten with burning brand and the
doctor counted sixty-two burns on her
body. She was confined in 9 kind of
press under the stairs of the garnet. Two
neighbOrs who CRughta glimpse of her
in this place Of her wretchedness said
that her face no longer had q human
appearance. On November 81 her tortur-
ers decided to be done with her
Josephine released her from the cupboard,
put her to bed, and then went with the
rest of the family to the village fete. Mar
Gel came back at midnight, and the neigh
bors were aroused by the terrible shrieks
of little Marie. They went and insisted
en- the police commissary of Langres
sending doctor and the gen d'armes to
look to the child, who they found to have
been suffocated with pillow. After she
was murdered the uncle stuffed a bun
down her throat to be able to say that she
had choked herself in eating it. The
three monsters tried TO shift the blame to
each other. A verdict of guilty, but with
eXtenusJing circumstances, was found.
Old Norrey and Marcel were sentenced to
fifteen years penal serYitude, and Jose
Dhine TO twelve